Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher | Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England | Author of The Berliners
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New Year, new me… My debut novel is out now in paperback as THE BERLINERS (prev’sly Friedrichstrasse 19). Buy from your local bookshop or follow the links below. With huge thanks to @agent_luck @jocastahamilton & all at @johnmurrays #Berlin #TheBerliners hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-h…
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Where the Light Sings - live @BBCRadio3 from Strumble Head lighthouse #Pembrokeshire 2-4pm with @RealShanCothi Producers Chris Taylor & Zerlina Vulliamy 🏴bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031pv…
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This will be a thing of loveliness. Travel with us to the lighthouse on Sat from 8am @BBCRadio3 The Welsh team are broadcasting live from beautiful Strumble Head #Pembrokeshire 2-4pm with @RealShanCothi - challenges include ‘how do we get a harp across a narrow footbridge...?’
This Saturday, @BBCRadio3 celebrates the lights that have guarded our shores for generations. We'll broadcast from atmospheric lighthouses, welcome guest musicians, and send @PetrocTrelawny to a mystery location via boat. What could possibly go wrong?! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031pv…
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“Slowly along the munching English lane”. And this is why I love Robert Lowell.
Today's the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham.
'There once the penitents took off their shoes
And then walked barefoot the remaining mile;
And the small trees, a stream and hedgerows file
Slowly along the munching English lane,
Like cows to the old shrine, until you lose
Track of your dragging pain.'
- Robert Lowell
The Slipper Chapel at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk.
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The Old English word for equinox is 'emniht', from 'efen' and 'niht', when night and day are evenly balanced. Today is the 'hærfestlice emniht', autumnal equinox; after this (says Byrhtferth of Ramsey) 'langað seo niht and wanað se dæg', 'the night lengthens and the day wanes'.
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Mark Doyle was a knowledgeable, kind and dedicated reporter for more than two decades. His untimely death will be mourned by many, especially in West Africa, a part of the world he loved and grew to know well.
A proper old school reporter - may he rest in peace bbc.com/news/articles/cq9862…
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‘Men become mortal the night their fathers die.’
Welsh poet and physician Dannie Abse born in Cardiff #otd 1923. Portrait by Josef Herman, National Museum Wales
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‘This is the greatest show…’ Composer of the Week celebrates some of C19th music’s Greatest Showstoppers. Today at 4pm @BBCRadio3 @DonaldMacleod01 explores the life and music of the 'Valkyrie of the Piano', Venezuelan pianist & composer Teresa Carreño. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001th7…
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And to learn more about the rise of the virtuoso performer, Key Changes looks at the demonic talent of Niccolò Paganini, Clara Wieck & Franz Liszt. 1828: Playing with Fire. With @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031kv…
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Playing with Fire 🎻🔥Delighted to welcome @KateWilliamsme to the next instalment of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with @GillianMoore10 1pm Sat 19 Sept or listen now @BBCSounds Producer David Fay bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031kv…
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It’s Hildegard of Bingen’s feast day. The perfect excuse to listen to the first episode of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music in which @GillianMoore10 & historian @MichaelWoodMV tell her story. And a proposed Playmobil figure…
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Protest, Power, Revolution and Resistance- If you’re enjoying @BBCRadio3’s Key Changes & you’re anywhere near Cardiff @BBCNOW are playing a fantastic programme of music linked to some of the series’ big themes. 3pm Sat 26 Sept, presented by @GillianMoore10 bbc.co.uk/events/ern4mb
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Featuring… Joseph Haydn’s Farewell Symphony as discussed in 1772: The Symphony Laboratory with @simon_schama bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002z7s…
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And Joan Towers’ Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which features in 1816: Engineering Music bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030v6…
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‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? Not Christopher Nolan but C’pher Marlowe. Just 3 days left to listen to Doctor Faustus @BBCSounds - the ultimate example of monstrous vanity & short-termist thinking. John Heffernan & Pearl Mackie star. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zss…
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In Key Changes we’re in 1822 & in Composer of the Week we’re in 1824, the year Franz #Schubert composes his Rosamunde String Quartet. Kate Molleson journeys through the last five years of his all-too-brief life. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Luke Whitlock bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00317f…
ALT Schubert at the Piano by Gustav Klimt (1899), a painting destroyed in a fire in May 1945 along with other works stolen by the Nazis
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Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic. 1822: Opera Fever. Gioachino #Rossini comes to town. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003176…
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…button after button
Sprang off & fell in a trail
Between the Underground & the Albert Hall.
Honeymooning, mooning around, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor & now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back - Seamus Heaney #bbcproms
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Tonight 8pm @BBCRadio4 Archive on 4. A group of indigenous people living between Brazil & Peru emerge from the forest & make what is described as first contact with the outside world. @HoratioClare explores the meaning of the term. Producer Martin Williams bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031gz…
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